Table of Contents

List of figures Acknowledgements Editor’s Preface Foreword Introduction 1. ‘Crises of Crisis Management’: Elements of a Political Crisis Theory 2. ‘Ungovernability’: The Renaissance of Conservative Theories of Crisis 3. Social Policy and the Theory of the State 4. Theses on the Theory of the State 5. Legitimacy Versus Efficiency 6. Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State 7. The Separation of Form and Content in Liberal Democracy 8. Competitive Party Democracy and the Keynesian Welfare State 9. Political Culture and Social Democratic Administration 10. Alternative Strategies in Consumer Policy 11. European Socialism and the Role of the State 12. Reflections on the Welfare State and the Future of Socialism. An Interview Index

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Claus Offe, John Keane